﻿M A N A K I N. |29 



Pipra rubetra, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 339. N° 4. '5' 



Le Manakin roux hupe, Brif. 0rn.1v. 461. N° II. YELLOW M. 



Rubetra, ou Oifeau d'Amerique huppe, Buf. oif. iv. 425. — Seia,i. p. 160. 

 t. 102. f. 4. 



T E N G T H four inches and a quarter. Bill fix lines and a Description. 



half, and yellow. This bird has a yellow creft : general 

 colour of the plumage yellowifh : throat brown : quills and tail 

 bright blue. 



Inhabits Brafil and Cayenne. Placb. 



Manakin a Collier, Brif. orn. iv. p. 456. N* 8. 



Maizi de Miacatototl *, Seba, i. p. 92. pi. 57. f. 3. — Buf. oif. iv. p. 424. COLLARED M 



C I Z E of the Gold-headed Manakin : length almoft three inches Description, 



and a half. Bill four lines and a half long, and of a yellowifh 

 colour : the head of a bright red : throat and fore part of the 

 neck golden yellow, in fhape of a collar: the hind part of the 

 neck, back, rump, the breaft, and reft of the under parts, are 

 black : wing coverts and quills deep blue : tail black : legs 

 pale yellow. 



Said to inhabit Brafil; but Buffon obferves, that the name it 

 bears is Mexican, and fignifies Maize Bird, 



Place. 



* Fernandez defcribes another bird by the name of Miacatototl ; faying 

 merely that it is a fmall one, and is found fitting on the heads of maize : that it 

 has a palith belly ; the reft of the body black ; on the wing fome white feathers ; 

 and under the tail cinereous : that it lives in cold places, and is good food. — 

 See Hift. N. Hifp. p. 30. 



Vol. II. 3 Y Le 



